Pasca
Sign in to savePasca is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia located in the Andes. It belongs to the Sumapaz Province. Pasca is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. It borders Fusagasugá, Sibaté and Soacha in the north, Bogotá D.C. in the north and east, Arbeláez in the south and Fusagasugá in the west. Is the entrance to the Páramo del Sumapaz, the biggest ecosystem in its genre in the world. The urban center is located at an altitude of and the altitude ranges from to .
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department and Tourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department.
Its subject is documented across 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Pasca
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- PASCA.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Pasca's church and museum façade
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Pasca (Cundinamarca).svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100px
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo de Pasca (Cundinamarca).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Pasca.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Pasca in the Department of Cundinamarca
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cundinamarca
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sumapaz Province
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Sumapaz Province
- Area
- 264.24
- Elevation
- 2180
- Official website
- www.pasca-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml
Show 3 more facts
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
- Commons category
- Pasca
- inception
- 1537-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Economy
- Archeology
- Famous pasqueños
- Climate
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
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== Etymology == Pasca in the Chibcha language means "father's enclosure", according to Acosta Ortegón.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pasca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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